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Before Christmas, CWU sent Christmas cards with a message to all MPs: 'All we want for Christmas is... equal rights for agency workers!'

The long-running campaign to secure equal treatment for agency workers hit another bump in the long road to achieving legal status when Lord Mandelson announced the long awaited Bill would not be implemented until October 2011.

The Temporary and Agency Workers Directive (TAWD) was passed at the European Parliament after a long campaign from the TUC, CWU and other unions. The delay in implementing these rights until the latest possible moment means that UK agency workers will have to wait for these modest rights to come into UK law.

The Christmas card reminds MPs of the outstanding rights with a festive poem:

"Silent night, silent night

Equal rights, still out of sight

Toys and gifts we long to share

Pay rates we can't compare

It's justice now we long for

Help us we implore."

To find out more about the campaign for agency rights please visit the CWU campaign page at: www.cwu.org/temporary-agency-worker-directive-tawd.html